Posted on 11/16/2023 8:40:36 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The Senate passed House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) short-term spending plan late Wednesday night, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk before the midnight Friday deadline.
Biden’s signature will avert a shutdown possibility until January, giving Congress barely two months to complete the process of agreeing on twelve appropriations bills or, failing that, cobble together yet another funding extension.
The laddered continuing resolution (CR) extends funding for four appropriations titles until January 19, 2024, and the remaining eight, including for the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), until February 2, 2024.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) consented to an agreement between Senate leaders to speed the bill through the Senate in exchange for a vote on his amendment to cut one percent of discretionary spending from the bill.
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Whew.....good thing we ousted McCarthy-Luntz, for the new guy.
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Spending levels with government are like inflation levels.
Once they go up, they never come down. Inflated prices stay up, forever. Spending levels stay up forever. No consequences for government, but the people pay the price.
Senator Kennedy (LA) said the other day that the U.S. population has grown by 2% since 2019, yet the Federal budget has grown by 55%. Do I have these numbers right?
McCarthy got what he deserved.
McCarthy was working for the DC crooks. I am glad he was sh1tcanned.
With traitorous Gomers Of Politics help preventing Jim Jordan for speaker, nothing to see here.
I’m not saying he didn’t. ;-)
Agree!!
Why anyone is still registered as a Republican is beyond me.
To vote in closed primaries for the more conservative GOP candidate....which happens too infrequently.
I know. Sorry I didn’t make that clear. Happy Freeping!
If that's the only reason to remain a registered Republican, then it's a lame excuse, because no matter who you vote for in the primary, the Republican Party will stab you in the back. They will specifically target MAGA people for destruction. If a Republican isn't already a rino when they run for election, if they stay in D.C. for any length of time, they will eventually become a rino.
I won't belong to a party that doesn't respect me enough to even want to try to protect my ballot from voter fraud. I left the party after 40+ years, shortly after January 6th, and will never go back. The only time Republicans know you is when they want something from you, like money, and your vote. Once they get it, they kick you in the teeth, and stab you in the back, until the next election cycle, then they're sniffing back around you again. They don't deserve me as a member of their uni-party.
Thx…you, too!!
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To vote in closed primaries for the more conservative GOP candidate....which happens too infrequently.
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Shame the voters don’t vote for the ones that uphold/defend the Constitution
What, exactly, are they “conserving” that deserves one’s vote??
This was a necessary step. It’s a shame it kept current spending levels but it did put a countdown timer on the appropriations bills.
It feels like decades since an appropriation bill was passed. There was no pressure to even complete one. Now there is.
The final exams are January 19 and February 2. Extra credit for spending cuts.
Let Chucky or the Big Guy shut it down in an election year.
EC
If we could keep current spending limits for the next ten years we might get somewhere.
Where are the times when we had actual fist-i-cuffs and duels in the Congress?
This is a fascinating discussion of the German hyperinflation that suddenly ended one hundred years ago:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/100-years-ago-week-german-hyperinflation-ended
How did it end so immediately and quickly?
The head of the German central bank died.
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